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SavageResponse:
Nigerians can't take any more telecoms taxes please!

You don't know Nigerians. They will not only take more tax but they will come there to defend and justify it. We have lost our elastic limit. APC practically outlawed protest against bad government policies. Meanwhile APC protested almost monthly when they were opposition.

The average Nigerian have been mentally conditioned to take government abuse without limit especially southerners

I no read the news, but I know it's political strategy to get 2027 votes and we no go gree

I want go rob a bank but this morning as i wake up i change my mind , I dont want to rob again .

Nigeria psychopath: jubilation gallore, this man is a man of peace , he suspends his decision to rob a bank

Nigerians are too easily deceived by propaganda absolutely….what’s the effect of the tax reduction of its really effective They said they will use statistics to deceive you and they are doing that easily

Offpoint1:
We should be excited right? Let's add the cancelation to his success

Yes,I think we should add it because it will make things a little easier for the masses.

At least we should give kudos to them when they do our positive wishes and knock them when they are in the negative.

All courtesy of President Tinubu,no other Nigerian President dead or alive,has ever done all of these.


Apart from the hardship (we can see that it is easing slowly) which happened because of the fuel and FX subsidies removal,President Tinubu has given more than any Nigerian previous govts within 2 years and I believe,just like other sane Nigerians,that he will do more.
He will surely win easily in 2027 now.

Coupled with massive ongoing infrastructural development,these are what he has given Nigerians in just 2 years...


NELFUND.

CONSUMER CREDIT SCHEME.

KIDNEY DIALYSIS almost free treatment.
(Haemodialysis is expensive, costing approximately N150,000:00 to N250,000:00 every month excluding Erythropoietin injections weekly)

Nigeria Technical institutions are free.They live in school free.They eat free food.They even collect #22,500 every month...so you think these students,their families,friends etc will allow you to vote out Tinubu because of your myopic views?
Dey play!



Old pensioners get free medical treatment in Nigeria.

Nigeria doesn't owe IMF shishi. Tinubu has paid all.

Nigeria has best tech city in the world 2025.

AMINDA:
Embellished news and achievement padding. This 5% tax was never enforced. It was proposed and later suspended due to backlash. It will have no bearing on current data and call rates.

Wow! I no know say you get sense like this!

potent5:
Tax and tax collectors is all that we are seeing in this administration. Next year will be hot. Tax will send some people to early kpai or riot.

Tax have already started to send people to their early grave since he came into power

Zionmdde:
They will.pass on the tax to you and I and even add some more for themselves
And it feels good we all keep paying more tax and they keep finding more tax for us to pay

Onye gba oso ...............

MPA ya

It doesn't make sense and this shouldn't be celebrated! He's removing tax after telecoms increased their tariffs...we all know what goes up in Nigeria hardly comes down! You make people go hungry on purpose, then you dangle a bowl of rice before them and allow them to take a spoon of rice when they are about to die of hunger!

Putinofrussia:
Donr be an illiterate,sir. So you do not know that Tinubu has scrapped tax off the necks of most Nigerians.It is basically the rich that will pay tax in Nigeria now.
Give gbosa to President Tinubu,sir.
God bless Nigeria.

If the rich pays increased tax who do you think they will transfer the cost burden to? Make una dey smart naaa.

Tax without used is that one tax non.

Irony1:
If the rich pays increased tax who do you think they will transfer the cost burden to? Make una dey smart naaa.

they dont know that anything affected the production of the rich the poor paid more even x2. Any increase tax end at the poor.

Putinofrussia:
Yes,I think we should add it because it will make things a little easier for the masses.

Atvleast we should give kudos to them when they do our positive wishes and knock them when they are in thevnegative.

All courtesy of President Tinubu,no other Nigerian President dead or alive,has ever done all of these.


Apart from the hardship (we can see that it is easing slowly) which happened because of the fuel and FX subsidies removal,President Tinubu has given more than any Nigerian previous govts within 2 years and I believe,just like other sane Nigerians,that he will do more.
He will surely win easily in 2027 now.

Coupled with massive ongoing infrastructural development,these are what he has given Nigerians in just 2 years...


NELFUND.

CONSUMER CREDIT SCHEME.

KIDNEY DIALYSIS almost free treatment.
(Haemodialysis is expensive, costing approximately N150,000:00 to N250,000:00 every month excluding Erythropoietin injections weekly)

Nigeria Technical institutions are free.They live in school free.They eat free food.They even collect #22,500 every month...so you think these students,their families,friends etc will allow you to vote out Tinubu because of your myopic views?
Dey play!



Old pensioners get free medical treatment in Nigeria.

Nigeria doesn't owe IMF shishi. Tinubu has paid all.

Nigeria has best tech city in the world 2025.

How much does APC pay to defend Tinubu.

My brother go find work ooo. This one no be work. Spewing lies up and down. Doctors have come out to say dialysis is still expensive in their govt hospitals. Hardship is not easing. Continue. The blood of those suffering will be on your head and your generations.

wirinet:
What do you mean that it is basically the rich that will pay tax in nigeria now? Tinubu that is preparing to tax all cumulative transfers to accounts within a year over 800,000, irrespective of purpose for the transfers or the profit margins of the business. I am still waiting to see how that one will work.

Tax is legitimate and all nations of the world collect tax from their citizens.Tax is ordained by God in the Bible and the Quran.
If you don't pay tax,know that you are not an authentic human.
Nigerian tax is one of the worst in the world.
We don't pay tax in Nigeria and this is the reason Nigeria is poor because we rely solely on oil while our leaders are chronically corrupt.
We have seen that this govt is using our revenue (which has dwindled greatly) diligently,mind you that we can't rule out corruption because it has been there since the creation of Nigeria or even the world.Nobody in the world can completely erase corruption because it is a human trait but can be minimised especially with tech.
China just executed an official recently for corruption.It is in the news day before yesterday that an official of USA govt has been indicted for corruption.
Tinubu is doing a lot of infrastructures all over the nation.Massive ones that had never been done in Nigeria before.
They will surely need money and tax is one of them.
Nobody taxes like the developed nations and this is why they are rich and serious.
Out of 100 taxes paid in sane nations,Nigeria has never taxed up to 30.Their stupidity is their fixation on oil,oil and oil.

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RichBoy247:
Did you read the report at all or are you just weeping for the love of weeping?

Maybe he is not as jobless as you that's why he didn't read that long epistle

OneCandleAway:
How much does APC pay to defend Tinubu.

My brother go find work ooo. This one no be work. Spewing lies up and down. Doctors have come out to say dialysis is still expensive in their govt hospitals. Hardship is not easing. Continue. The blood of those suffering will be on your head and your generations.

I am not even an APC or any other stupid party member because I detest political parties because of their doings.
I dont know or has ever seen or met President
Tinubu personally but I got interested when I heard people castigating him.I read about him and saw that this man is going to be a positive game changer for Nigeria and Niigerians if he can become the President of Nigeria and I have been vindicated and will be more vindicated when he finishes his 8 years.
He would have built for Nigeria the strongest of foundation that will make Nigeria the real economic and technology giant of Africa and one of the best in the world.
How I hope,just as you wish, I even get paid (in millions of course) for my staunch support for this great builder called President Tinubu .

Same thing I noticed, I have had countless failed transactions on used and almost 7 naira is deducted . This must be the greatest scam of the century and most times I dont like opening my app for small transactions

oz4real83:
The USSD codes should be the worst fraud , alongside discos in Nigeria. Immediately you dial their codes, the N6.8 is deducted even when the transaction is not successful as it is most of the time . The poorer the network, the more the transaction fails, the more you have to redial, the more they deduct from you, even when the banks reversed the transaction, the USSD deductions remain

He said he would spread the Tax net nah

Zionmdde:
They will.pass on the tax to you and I and even add some more for themselves
And it feels good we all keep paying more tax and they keep finding more tax for us to pay

Onye gba oso ...............

Putinofrussia:
President Tinubu has just removed the tax that was put on Nigerians' neck before.
We are no more going to pay the tax.
Kudos to President Tinubu.


All courtesy of President Tinubu,no other Nigerian President dead or alive,has ever done all of these.


Apart from the hardship (we can see that it is easing slowly) which happened because of the fuel and FX subsidies removal,President Tinubu has given more than any Nigerian previous govts within 2 years and I believe,just like other sane Nigerians,that he will do more.
He will surely win easily in 2027 now.

Coupled with massive ongoing infrastructural development,these are what he has given Nigerians in just 2 years...


NELFUND.

CONSUMER CREDIT SCHEME.

KIDNEY DIALYSIS almost free treatment.
(Haemodialysis is expensive, costing approximately N150,000:00 to N250,000:00 every month excluding Erythropoietin injections weekly)

Nigeria Technical institutions are free.They live in school free.They eat free food.They even collect #22,500 every month...so you think these students,their families,friends etc will allow you to vote out Tinubu because of your myopic views?
Dey play!



Old pensioners get free medical treatment in Nigeria.

Nigeria doesn't owe IMF shishi. Tinubu has paid all.

Nigeria has best tech city in the world 2025.

Oga who put the tax for nigérians necks in the first place?

Don't blame the NCC it has been privatized, it no longer serves the interest of the public but that of its pay master corporations who are only interested in hiking telecom charges because they have a long-term goal of enslaving phone owners.

Seems all Telcos planned it because Glo is also doing the same illegal data depletion.

Doubt if this VAT tax ease will make much difference.

JackDaAlienz:
MTN have started doing Data scam

You recharge 2gb data and enable Data saver and within few hours everything is gone..

Putinofrussia:
Yes,I think we should add it because it will make things a little easier for the masses.

Atvleast we should give kudos to them when they do our positive wishes and knock them when they are in thevnegative.

All courtesy of President Tinubu,no other Nigerian President dead or alive,has ever done all of these.


Apart from the hardship (we can see that it is easing slowly) which happened because of the fuel and FX subsidies removal,President Tinubu has given more than any Nigerian previous govts within 2 years and I believe,just like other sane Nigerians,that he will do more.
He will surely win easily in 2027 now.

Coupled with massive ongoing infrastructural development,these are what he has given Nigerians in just 2 years...


NELFUND.

CONSUMER CREDIT SCHEME.

KIDNEY DIALYSIS almost free treatment.
(Haemodialysis is expensive, costing approximately N150,000:00 to N250,000:00 every month excluding Erythropoietin injections weekly)

Nigeria Technical institutions are free.They live in school free.They eat free food.They even collect #22,500 every month...so you think these students,their families,friends etc will allow you to vote out Tinubu because of your myopic views?
Dey play!



Old pensioners get free medical treatment in Nigeria.

Nigeria doesn't owe IMF shishi. Tinubu has paid all.

Nigeria has best tech city in the world 2025.

Try harder...

The hardership is experience by 90% of Nigerians... The few 'benefits' you mentioned are experience by 1% of Nigerians.


Try harder... Who introduced the tax in the place? My dad?

Putinofrussia:
I am not even an APC or any other stupid party member because I detest political parties because of their doings.
I dont know or has ever seen or met President
Tinubu personally but I got interested when I heard people castigating him.I read about him and saw that this man is going to be a positive game changer for Nigeria and Niigerians if he can become the President of Nigeria and I have been vindicated and will be more vindicated when he finishes his 8 years.
He would have built for Nigeria the strongest of foundation that will make Nigeria the real economic and technology giant of Africa and one of the best in the world.
How I hope,just as you wish, I even get paid (in millions of course) for my staunch support for this great builder called President Tinubu .

Read about him indeed. Hope you read he committed perjury. Lied about going to govt college ibadan. Hope you read alpha beta is criminal state capture, something Jacob zuma was prosecuted for. He was advised to settle him partner in crime on alpha beta befire the 2023 election because that man was ready to reveal incriminating documents on Tinubu. After being strong headed and thinking he was smarter, he eventually settled the man, as advised. His greed is out of this world, but that seems to be common especially among black African politicians.

Putinofrussia:
Tax is legitimate and all nations off the world collect tax from their citizens.Tax is ordained by God in the Bible and the Quran.
If you don't pay tax,know that you are not an authentic human.
Nigerian tax is one of the worst in the world.
We don't pay tax in Nigeria and this is the reason Nigeria is poor because we rely solely on oil while our leaders are chronically corrupt.
We have seen that this govt is using our revenue (which has dwindled greatly) diligently,mind you that we can't rule out corruption because it has been there since the creation of Nigeria or even the world.Nobody in the world can completely erase corruption because it is a human trait but can be minimise especially with tech.
China just executed an official recently for corruption.It is in the news day before yesterday that an official of USA govt has been indicted for corruption.
Tinubu is doing a lot of infrastructures all over the nation.Massive ones that had never been done in Nigeria before.
They will surely need money and tax is one of them.
Nobody taxes like the developed nations and this is why they are rich and serious.
Out of 100 taxes paid in sane nations,Nigeria has never taxed up to 30.Their stupidity is their fixation on oil,oil and oil.

It is difficult to defend the indefensible. Those who are genuinely doing legitimate business in Nigeria understand that we already pay more “taxes” than almost anywhere else in the world. Instead of easing the burden on citizens, the Tinubu administration seems determined to bleed the people dry. This new so-called “income tax” on total bank deposits may well be the straw that breaks the camel’s back.

Let me break down the reality of what Nigerians are already groaning under:

1. Import Duties
Nigeria is an import-dependent country. Import duties are charged on almost everything we consume—cars, rice, medicines, machinery, fuel, and more. Even locally produced goods that rely on imported materials are not spared; duties and levies still apply.

2. Value Added Tax (VAT)
We also pay VAT on virtually every good and service. The rate was increased from 5% to 7.5%, further tightening the squeeze on both businesses and consumers.

3. Taxes on Financial Transactions
Things became even more ridiculous when the government started taxing our bank transactions. Every transfer or deposit attracts charges. While typing this I transferred ₦100,000 from my Zenith Bank account to my PalmPay account. Zenith deducted ₦53.75 as NIP + VAT, while PalmPay deducted another ₦50 as the Electronic Transfer Levy. That’s ₦103.75 lost in a single transaction—without earning a single kobo in profit.

Now, imagine repeating such transactions multiple times a day, every day, as is common in business. The cumulative effect is massive losses for both individuals and enterprises.

4. Proposed Tax on Bank Balances
To make matters worse, the administration is now proposing a tax on all bank balances above ₦800,000 per year. It doesn’t matter whether the money represents profit or loss, or how it got there—the government just wants a cut. Which other country operates like this? In the U.S., for example, Donald Trump legally paid zero taxes for years despite transactions worth billions because he declared losses.

5. Unofficial Taxes
Beyond official levies, Nigerians face layers of unofficial “taxation” that government seems to tolerate. After buying land and paying all the official charges, you are still compelled to “settle” "omoniles" before you can build.

All markets in Lagos pay levies to Iya Oloja, bales and other unofficial institutions disguised as traditional obligations.

If you run a transport business, after paying official vehicle taxes, you must still pay agberos, police, unions, and local government touts at almost every turn. These are extortions disguised as taxes, and they cripple small businesses daily.

The Religious Justification Fallacy
I find it disturbing when people use religion to justify exploitative governance. The Bible never ordained taxes. When asked about paying tax, Jesus simply said: *“Give unto Caesar what belongs to Caesar, and to God what belongs to God.”* That statement does not equate to Jesus supporting taxation. It was simply a reminder that spiritual obligations and civil obligations are separate.

A Tool of Oppression
These oppressive taxes mirror the tactics of colonizers. The British taxed the Aba people so heavily that women rose up in the historic Aba Women’s Riot. It was taxes on imported tea that sparked the American Revolution, ultimately ending British rule in the U.S.

Yet here we are, in 2025, facing a government that has chosen to weaponize taxation against its own people. Defending such a regime is not patriotism—it is patronizing oppression.

Trueprophet91:
Exactly
Check out Chris Ngige's government of those days,it was exactly the same... hassle for popularity and legitimacy,by all means

Is that why the fraud is claiming credit for Ngige's projects 😂

they will still implement it silently and secretly without prior public notice and there's absolutely nothing nigerians will do He has done it before and he will do it again

OneCandleAway:
Read about him indeed. Hope you read he committed perjury. Lied about going to govt college ibadan. Hope you read alpha beta is criminal state capture, something Jacob zuma was prosecuted for. He was advised to settle him partner in crime on alpha beta befire the 2023 election because that man was ready to reveal incriminating documents on Tinubu. After being strong headed and thinking he was smarter, he eventually settled the man, as advised. His greed is out of this world, but that seems to be common especially among black African politicians.

Fidelity Bank the fraud was using to loot Anambra funds is not state capture?, NEXT is not state capture?. The joke is on you

wirinet:
4. Proposed Tax on Bank Balances [/b]
To make matters worse, the administration is now proposing a tax on all bank balances above ₦800,000 per year. It doesn’t matter whether the money represents profit or loss, or how it got there—the government just wants a cut. Which other country operates like this? In the U.S., for example, Donald Trump legally paid zero taxes for years despite transactions worth billions because he declared losses.

Bring your evidence for this. I'm not even interested in all those other trash you posted, all the taxes predates Tinubu's Administration and you can relocate to an import-duty free and VAT free country and when you find one, send me the location so that I can come and join you there 🤡

Rindo69:
They want to tax your income and then tax every other thing you use your already taxed income to buy!

Income tax, then tax transfers you make even to your alternate accounts. Then tax what you consume, then they planned to tax your calls.

Then they take all these taxes and pay themselves higher wages, longer convoys, execute ridiculous contracts which they get kick backs from neglecting public infrastructure like roads, schools, hospitals , electricity, water
Then you use your taxed income to repair your cars from the damage caused by the bad roads or buy a car (which they are heavily taxing) because there is no reliable public transport system in place, send your kids to private schools cos the public ones are useless, go to private hospitals and generate your own electricity and water and employ security guards cos the police are not policing due to poor funding

We will widen the tax net! Promises kept

By next year, many Nigerians would either die of frustration or take their chances and go on another '#ENDSARS kind of protest (no matter how many lives it would take) that would reset this country on a better path forever.

These politicians take these decisions because they know they always have those they can pay to support every of their wicked actions or better still, throw in some ethnic propaganda through their lackeys to silence Nigerians from complaining..

Next year will be tough for politicians, they should continue making bitter laws to tax the blood of Nigerians. Good luck to them.